Health and Safety Assessment

For the filming of my music video there are only a small amount of safety risks. I have been provided with this grid as an example of how to properly assess the risks that could arise while I'm filming and how to  properly prepare for them and how to ensure to the best of my ability that they don't take place in the first place.

My Music Video: Influences (Including Textual Analysis)

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With a song such as ‘Game Over’ I think it’s pretty obvious where most my inspiration came from for my music video. If you were to say: Extreme birdwatching, Non-Contact Rugby or whatever the hell is going on here {insert clip of Asian man eating noodles in a washing machine as it spins} you would be wrong. It was actually video games.

I’ve played video games for as long as I can remember, starting off with the old classics on PS1 and GameBoy such as Pokemon, Medal of Honour and Crash Bandicoot. I have even delved into the incredibly retro consoles, such as the SNES and N64. They’ve been a practically daily part of my life for over a decade, which is the majority of my life so far, so they’re obviously going to hold some sort of significance in my choice of song.  This particular song, if you couldn’t already tell, is all about video games. In summary, the writer talks about how he relates his life to a video game, and how he just wants to find a better way to live, or “play it”. The link here is that video games, to me at least, can be so entertaining and so utterly enthralling that your life begins to revolve around them…or in the case of my chosen song, your life can actually be accurately and closely related to one.

Specifically I took inspiration from action RPG games, ones in which a drastic emphasis is places on you creating your own adventure. Your own character, your own story, your own choices.

As for the music that I found inspiring, Falling In Reverse were obviously a big part of it, as they made the song. The Rock genre has changed a lot since its inception, and the fact that a band like Falling In Reverse can be classed as rock is proof of this. They dabble in a lot of rap and electric, as well as heavy song with powerful instrumentals and choruses. They are incredibly varied, yet are still primarily classified as rock. This is very similar to another band that I took a lot of inspiration from, Hollywood Undead, who create a very interesting and large mix of rock and rap songs, and even have one that leans heavily towards country with elements of pop (I'll be there) . This mixing of genres is becoming commonplace in many forms of media, not just music (i.e RomZomComs, Shaun of the Dead) which is why, even though this particular song is rock; I found it fitting to state artists from several genres as inspiration, primarily the ones that fit into more than one genre.

So firstly, I took inspiration from a lot of artist that mixed the genres and continued to blur the lines. Namely-Starset. This band has currently released two studio albums and is famous for mixing heavy electric beats and baselines with incredible guitar input and some of the best and heaviest drumming I’ve ever had the pleasure of listening to. [Starset-Ricochet] The singer sounds amazingly like Benjamin Buntley, the lead singer of Breaking Benjamin (who are another one of my inspirations., so it's clear that the mixing of genres is a large ficus of my inspirations as I find it to be a fascinating concept, as it has spawned some of my favourite music.






Additionally, the mixing of rap and rock of Hollywood Undead was an obvious inspiration, as I based my AS coursework on them almost entirely, which can be seen by the use of masks by all of the band members. Linkin Park too, as they were some of the first to inter-splice genres with their mix of pop punk and rap, which kickstarted the idea’s popularity. This trend of the mixing of genres is incredibly post modern, and can be seen in an ever-increasing number of artists, such as From Ashes To New, who sound almost identical to Hollywood Undead.